Would I be able to play MP3s with an 030?

[sim085]

I was wondering, would it be possible to play mp3 music if I install an 030 accelerator board on my A500?

[Amiduffer]

http://www.mediaarchivesystems.com/PDF/MAS%20Player%20Brochure.pdf

With MAS-Player, yes.

[Matt_H]

@ sim085

Probably at a reduced bitrate, and it'll eat all your CPU power, so don't expect to do much else at the same time.

@ Amiduffer

That's not the Amiga MAS Player...

[Sir_Lucas]

I was wondering, would it be possible to play mp3 music if I install an 030 accelerator board on my A500?

When you install 030 in that A500, try Prayer it's a very light app. You'll have to of course reduce the quality. But it's possible to play mp3 using 030.

[koshman]

Certainly possible for the heck of it. Makes sense for actual listening to music? NO! It sounds like **** through the native Amiga output.

[Tajmaster]

I was wondering, would it be possible to play mp3 music if I install an 030 accelerator board on my A500?

Good luck finding an 030 for the A500!! :lol:

[alexh]

In software? At normal MP3 settings? The answer is a resounding NO!

You need a hardware MP3 decoder. But really why bother?

[sim085]

But really why bother?

The question just popped to mind because I think one time I read that you need at least an 030 to play mp3's. Real and truly I am mostly interested to play good 'quality' music on my A500. However do not really know what the limits are. All I know is that at the moment with a stock 68000 it really sucks and wanted to see if an 030 would make it better in any way (maybe by allowing me to store music in some other format).

[koshman]

Apparently, playing WAVs is much easier on the hardware, because it doesn't have to the decoding, and they should play fine even on 68000 or so I've heard. If you've got the HDD space...

[Hell Labs]

sound cards are really necessary for mp3s. Paula is great for synth, recordings not so much.

[johnklos]

sound cards are really necessary for mp3s. Paula is great for synth, recordings not so much.

Using 14 bit mode on the Amiga works very nicely and gives good quality sound, but I doubt there's an '030 out there that can decode an MP3 and do 14 bit Amiga sound at the same time... Maybe you can do 14 bit with WAV or AIFF files with an '030...

[koshman]

Well, 14bit is certainly better than 8bit, but "good quality" in absolute terms is stretching it...

[tone007]

I liked playing MP3s through the internal speaker in the 3000T.

[DyLucke]

I've played mp3's on my 030 50mhz, but of course reduced quality and mono sound is needed in order to make it work. As a result, sound is quite bad.

030 is too weak for playing mp3's, it is useles but for testing purposes or as a curiosity.
In fact to do what a 030 does playing mp3's you'll need a i486 on a PC. If you want to play music with fairly good sound quality you'll need at least a 060. In fact dedicated processors on MP3 players, have a higher clock rate, and they're specifically designed for that code, so an "all round" CPU at 50mhz is not a big deal.

[Hell Labs]

tbh if I was going to listen to music and use an amiga at the same time it'd just pop a tape in my stereo.